Advocates of a ban on the production, stock- piling and use of anti-personnel land mines call it practical compassion, an act of nobility that will be emulated. It is, they say, an idea that we can live with ad that thousands of people a year—one person is said to be killed or maimed by a mine every 22 minutes—cannot live without. Critics say a ban would be "noblesse oblige arms control," continuing the reduction of U.S. foreign policy to gestures both frivolous and dangerous, the triumph of symbolism and sentimentalism over realism.
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